Women's Fitness Guide

We all want to look and feel our best, so our Women's Fitness series provides you with your own personal trainer in bookazine form. Each edition focuses in on one aim, using expert advice from fitness professionals and nutritionists to help you reach your goals. You could try out the Women's Guide to Running, the Best Body Bootcamp, Tone up in Ten Minutes, Get Your Body Back – and numerous other titles all dedicated to helping you feel fitter and healthier at your own pace.

Welcome

Women's Fitness Guide

How to use this book • Are you ready for results? Then let’s get started! To get the maximum from this guide, just follow the four steps below

5 WAYS to master HIIT • HIIT requires a smart approach. Here’s how to ensure you get the results you’re sweating for

GET RESULTS! • Consistent training is the key to great results! Make sure injury doesn’t send you to the sidelines with these tips.

Got 5 mins? • Science says you can get fit in the time it takes to make a sandwich! Here’s how to take the HIIT method from science lab to gym floor!

HOME KIT • Amp up the intensity of your home workout with these simple bits of equipment

YOUR WORKOUT WARDROBE • Too much bounce in your bra to focus on high-intensity training? Here’s how to ensure that your clothing doesn’t ruin your workout.

HIT IT! • Ready to start your journey into high intensity fitness? Then let’s get going…

MAX-INTENSITY METHODS • Don’t want to follow the 6-week plan? That’s fine. Try adding some of our favourite exercises into your existing routine. Alternatively, mix and match upper, lower, fat burner and core moves to make your own high-intensity session. Here are a few methods you might want to try.

TRAINING PLAN

Get started • Don’t begin your workout cold. Get blood pumping through your body with a dynamic warm-up!

LEVEL 3 • Look up ‘HIIT training’ on the internet and you’ll notice a trend – it’s intense, fast-moving and involves a lot of sweat. If the basic exercises no longer leave you gasping for oxygen, it’s time to crank the intensity up a notch. Welcome to Level 3 – your workout just got tougher. This level focuses on heavier and more explosive moves that will boost your strength and power, preparing your body for Level 4 (L4).

LEVEL 4 • Say ‘hello’ to level four. By now, you’ll be pretty used to high intensity training exercises and be ready to push your body to its absolute maximum. Good news - you’ve come to the right place. This level focuses on heavier, harder and more technical exercises that will rev up your heart rate, burn oodles of calories and improve your strength. You’ll break a sweat just thinking about how tough this level is! Ready? Let’s get started…

Cool-down • Want to train again this week? Here are six stretches that will help your body recover

Fuel your workout • Need energy to burn? Eat the right foods and you'll exercise even harder